Sunday, April 4, 2010

Let's BookCross@1U

What is BookCross?

It's where 852,652 people in over 130 countries come to share their passion for books with the world. Where books take on a life of their own. Free your books! Follow their journey and the lives they touch.

Described as a modern day "message in a bottle", BookCrossing was founded in 2001 in the US. The global phenomenon follows the unique concept of leaving books at public spaces for people to find and ultimately spread the joy of reading.

BookCrossing is earth-friendly, and gives you a way to share your books, clear your shelves, and conserve precious resources at the same time. Through this unique method of recycling reads, BookCrossers give life to books. A book registered on BookCrossing is ready for adventure.

Leave it on a park bench, a coffee shop, at a hotel on vacation. Share it with a friend or tuck it onto a bookshelf at the gym -- anywhere it might find a new reader! What happens next is up to fate, and we never know where our books might travel. Track the book's journey around the world as it is passed on from person to person.